Actualités of Wednesday, 27 January 2016

Source: rfi.fr

Concerns about the fate of Lydienne Yen-Eyoum

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Some human rights activists are worried about the lawyer jailed in Cameroon for six years.

SOS Racisme is of the hope that Lydienne Yen-Eyoum, a French- Cameroonian, sentenced for embezzlement of public funds will benefit from a presidential pardon.

A request to this effect was submitted in October 2015. Despite being in prison, Barrister Yen-Eyoum keeps her morale, according to the president of SOS Racisme, Dominique Sopo.

She just "celebrated" her six years in prison said Dominique Sopo, president of SOS Racism